Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song

There is a great deal of human nature in man

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults

There are two freedoms The false, where man is free to do what he likes The true, where man is free to do what he ought

Every Winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about