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

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.