I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.