Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Death is better than disease.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.