Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
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.