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.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

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

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.