One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works.

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.