Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than a cheap book, - and that is a book honestly come by.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.