He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.