A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.