Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.