O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.