Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.