I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the….

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it..

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination..

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies..

Fresh October brings the pheasant, Then to gather nuts is pleasant..

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine..

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast..

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman..

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall.

I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere w….

When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the tw….

The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness..

February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again..

bubbles of false opinion will last whole ages, and deceive whole generations, till they are broken by some powerful breath, and even then how often t….

Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery ….

Hot July brings cooling showers, Apricots and gillyflowers..

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow..

Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to a….

Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barri….

The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separati….

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat..