Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

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.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.