Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.

Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.