If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.