From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

It is the 1st mild day of March. Each minute sweeter than before... there is a blessing in the air.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.