The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.