Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.