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

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple.

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.