The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

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

Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.

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.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.