Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.