The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

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

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.