Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

"Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.