We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.