By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none..

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me..

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him..

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods..

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain..

The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it bea….

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity..

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!.

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them..

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee..

Love is better than Fame..

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse..

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably bea….

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return..

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!.

Pens carry further than rifled cannon..

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring..

Peace the offspring is of Power..

He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own..

The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in mea….

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance..