The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

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

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.

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.