The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.