Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.