“Never abandon the wholesome practice of saying your own private prayers, night and morning.”

Recommending private prayer as a sustaining personal practice · Letter to Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, 1868

• Faith
• Hope

“Your earnestness has stimulated mine, your laughter has made me laugh, and your tears have overflowed my eyes.”

Describing the reciprocal emotional energy between writer and audience · Speech, Liverpool, 10 April 1869

• Art
• Friendship

“This watch, with which you have presented me, shall be my companion in my hours of sedentary working at home, and in my wanderings abroad.”

Linking a gift with future work, travel and remembrance · Speech, Coventry, 4 December 1858

• Memory
• Time