Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.