Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may contain. To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, - that is genius.

Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.