But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

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

We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.