Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.