Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

The king is the man who can.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.