A deep distress has humanised my soul.

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

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