But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars..

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures..

When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune….

Men will love to the last, but they love what is fresh and new. A woman's love can live on the recollection of the past, and cling to what is old and….

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge..

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. M….

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods..

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are marrie….

Short accounts make long friends..

But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball….

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants..

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured u….

Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, b….

To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!.

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doct….

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can bro….

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless..

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even….

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamon….

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness..