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!

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

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

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

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

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

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.