“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, mor...”

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchen...”