Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.