The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Blessed are the joymakers.

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.

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 position you hold and the work you are now doing.

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

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.