Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

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.

"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book, I do not doubt that many a good book has remained unwritten, or, perhaps, being written, has remained unpublished, because there floated before the mind's eye of the author, or possible author, the ideal of a better or a best, which has put him out of all conceit with his good.

For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.