Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

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

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

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