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.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

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.

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

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

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.