To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

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.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.