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

A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts

But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!

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