It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.