A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.