If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

Those who love are but one step from heaven.

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as the true poet is he who detects the divine in the casual; and we somewhat suspect the depth of his insight into the past who cannot recognize the godlike of to-day under that disguise in which it always visits us.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.