What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me the goodness which has forgotten its own deeds,--which God has seen to be good, and let be.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.