Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.