Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Sunlight is like the breath of life to the pomp of autumn.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.