Gone before To that unknown and silent shore.

The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them.

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.