“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”

“There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.”

“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”

“I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.”

“I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained with much learning and pleasantry on both sides, 'Whether supposing that the flavour of a big wh...”

“Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?”

“Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.”

“The image of God cut in ebony.”

“O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?”