The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.

I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.