To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Many make the household but only one the home.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.