In the oxygen of success even the dullest metals will scintillate, and it needed but such small beginnings of his future to make Theophilus as nearly irresistible as natural gifts and success together can make a man.
Some people go to chapel to worship, a few to learn, but most, odd as it may sound, to be entertained.

A vivid and magnetic preacher is as near as many will allow themselves to approach the theatre.

Theophilus was a born actor--of himself; a part so few can or dare play.

He gave you good stimulating truth; but it was not so much in the newness of the ideas which he passed on from his books to his hearers, as in the newness of himself, that of course the charm lay.

A few people, not many or important, disliked him; but all had to listen, and a good many came to New Zion again.