Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

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.

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

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

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.

There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.