A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.