The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

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.

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

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.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.