Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.