Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.

Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.