This garden has a soul, I know its moods.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

I loved my friend for his gentleness, his candor, his good repute, his freedom even from my own livelier manner, his calm and reasonable kindness. It was not any particular talent that attracted me to him, or i anything striking whatsoever. I should say in one word, it was his goodness.