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

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

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

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

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.