Quotes about Author

Humility is the only soil in which the graces root; the lack of humility is the sufficient explanation of every defect and failure.

Redemption is too often looked at from its negative side as deliverance from: its real glory is the positive element of being redeemed unto Himself.

joy in prayer is sign of communion with God that shows that God is everything to them.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!

ANACEPHALÆOSIS  (ANACEPHALÆO'SIS)   n.s.[   or summary of the principal heads of a discourse.Dict.

It has been, from age to age, an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude, among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.Spectator,No 264.

ÆGILOPS  (Æ'GILOPS)   n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues

ANATRON  (A'NATRON)   n.s.The scum which swims upon the molten glass in the furnace, which, when taken off, melts in the air, and then coagulates into common salt. It is likewise that salt which gathers upon the walls of vaults.

Mary is the only possible witness to Jesus's conception and birth. And Luke is a credible witness to Mary's "pondering.