The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.