There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

No violent extreme endures.