Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.