Kitten is in the animal world what the rosebud is in the garden; the one the most beautiful of all young creatures, the other the loveliest of all opening flowers.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.

Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.