Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.