We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Within today, tomorrow is already walking.

Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.