The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

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