Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

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

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.