These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.