Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!