There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Silence is sorrow's best food.