The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath its eyes unsealed. True it is that Death's face seems stern and cold When he is sent to summon those we love; But all God's angels come to us disguised; Sorrow and sickness, poverty and death, One after another, lift their frowning masks, And we behold the Seraph's face beneath, All radiant with the Glory and the calm Of having looked upon the front of God.

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

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.