Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
Blessed are the joymakers.
It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
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.