What is reading but silent conversation?

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.