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

The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

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

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

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

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.