Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

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.

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

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.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.