Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Grief even in a child hates the light and shrinks from human eyes.

I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the most mournful that ever ear heard. Mournful! That is saying nothing. It was a wind that had swept the fields of mortality for a hundred centuries.

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.