God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.