As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.