Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation; and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.