Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

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.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.