That any ordinarily good man should so deceive himself, appears to my mind altogether impossible and incredible." "Ah! but he was an extraordinarily good man." "Therefore the more likely to think too much of himself ?" "Why not?
I see the same thing in his followers all about me." "Doubtless the servant shall be as his master," said the minister, and closed his mouth, resolved to speak no more.

But his conscience woke, and goaded him with the truth that had come from the mouth of its enemy--the reproach his disciples brought upon their master, for, in the judgment of the world, the master is as his disciples.
"You Christians," the doctor went on, "seem to me to make yourselves, most unnecessarily, the slaves of a fancied ideal.

I have no such ideal to contemplate; yet I am not aware that you do better by each other than I am ready to do for any man.

I can't pretend to love every body, but I do my best for those I can help.

Mr.Drake, I would gladly serve you." The old man said nothing.