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.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.