Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.