God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!

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

I should not dare to call my soul my own.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.