Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.