When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

Dear to me is my bonnie white steed; Oft has he helped me at pinch of need.

Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.