Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.