As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.

Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.