Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

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.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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!