Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.