The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.
between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.
Every reformation ruins somebody.
It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.
Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.
Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.