The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.

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

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

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.