That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.

The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.