Endurance is the crowning quality.

Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.

No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

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

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.