Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

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

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

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

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.