There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.