God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

Truth sometimes corner unawares upon Caution, and sometimes speaks in public as unconsciously as in a dream.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.