Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.

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

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.