A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

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.

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.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

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

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.