When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

In every thing that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.