A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Make not thyself the judge of any man.

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!

Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon.

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.