The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

What heart has not acknowledged the influence of this hour, the sweet and soothing hour of twilight, the hour of love, the hour of adoration, the hour of rest, when we think of those we love only to regret that we have not loved them more dearly, when we remember our enemies only to forgive them.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.