It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.