History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

The sea has formed the English character and the essential England is to be found in those who follow it. From blue waters they have learned mercifulness, and they have also learned - in the grimmest of schools - precision and resolution. The sea endures no makeshifts. If a thing is not exactly right it will be vastly wrong.