The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

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

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

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

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.