My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.

[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

In indolent vacuity of thought.