Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.