To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!