I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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