It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.