The dearest events are summer-rain.

What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived

Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.