It is never too late to be who you want to be.

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.