It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

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

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.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

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

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.