The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

Offended self-love never forgives.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

i was a prisoner of events

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside “identity theft” and “mass shootings.” In the 1980s, it completed with “nuclear destruction.” In the 1970s, “shark attack.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

Bing Crosby said that Armstrong is "the beginning and the end of music in America," and he wasn't far wrong.

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Write what you like; there is no other rule.

If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia.

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.