Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.