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

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.

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.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

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

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.