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

Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

Nothing that is can pause or stay.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.