We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood; the same trivial words and notes sung by a wood-nymph.