A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

Let weakness learn meekness.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.