Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

a good reader makes a good book