The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.