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

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.