Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

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

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.

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