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

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.