Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

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.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.

Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.