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.

Blessed are the joymakers.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

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.