Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.