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.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

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