The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.