True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

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.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

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