The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.