... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.