Temptation hath a music for all ears.

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 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.

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.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

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