There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

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

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

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

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.