Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

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

They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

How like they are to human things!

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.