It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.

The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

Love lives on, and hath a power to bless when they who loved are hidden in the grave.