Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

That man is idle who can do something better.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.