It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.