Temptation hath a music for all ears.

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.

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.

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

The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

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

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