Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

Welcome as the flowers in May.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!

Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.