Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

My greatest skill has been to want but little.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.