While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

There are like to be short graces where the devil plays host.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.