The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

Earth has not anything to show more fair.

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.