The less we see to esteem in ourselves, the more we shall see to esteem in the infinite purity and loveliness of our Saviour. A view of our sinfulness drives us to Him who can pardon; and when the soul, realizing its helplessness, reaches out after Christ, He will reveal Himself in power. The more our sense of need drives us to Him and to the word of God, the more exalted views we shall have of His character, and the more fully we shall reflect His image.英文原著 · 《Steps to Christ》
That looks like mad; but I won't lose my speech. My dearest Jenny--your name is Jenny, I think?-- My dearest Jenny, though I have the highest esteem for the sweet favours you have just now granted me-- Gor, that's a fib, though; but Jessamy says it is not wicked to tell lies to the women. [Aside.] I say, though I have the highest esteem for the favours you have just now granted me, yet you will consider that, as soon as the dissolvable knot is tied, they will no longer be favours, but only matters of duty and mat- ters of course.英文原著 · 《The Contrast》
My Lord Sandwich is still in good esteem, and now keeping his Christmas in the country; and I in good esteem, I think, as any man can be, with him. In fine, for the good condition of myself, wife, family, and estate, in the great degree that it is, and for the public state of the nation, so quiet as it is, the Lord God be praised!英文原著 · 《The Diary of Samuel Pepys》
"Why this air of contempt or aversion?" he said, changing colour. "Is it to the Marechale de Rochefort or the Marquise de Maintenon that you object? I esteem both the one and the other, and I am sorry for you if you do not esteem them too."英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan》
And so esteemed was he of the officers of the law that even this interference did but procure a reprimand.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Sir Roger Hever of Harcliffe too,-- His sister's son was he,-- Sir David Lambwell, well esteemed, But saved he could not be;英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》