Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

The country is not priest-ridded, but press-ridden.

I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!