A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.