Before you sleep, read something that is exquisite, and worth remembering.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.