The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.