How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.