Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion.

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.