So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

We may think all religions beneficial, and believe of one alone that it is true.

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.