Many make the household but only one the home.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

The snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.