Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.