We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark. 
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. 
As a scientist Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber, he would never hear the end of it 
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven. 
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world. 
Laws die. Books never. 
It shames man not to feel man's human fear,It shames man only if the fear subdue
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. 
He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old. 
No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours. 