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

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

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.

Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.