Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction?

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.