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

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to….

There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!.

Life lives only in success..

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth..

The glories of the possible are ours..

Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desol….

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!.

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful..

The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America.….

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer..

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live..

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiqui….

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athle….

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale..

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap..

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, ….

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience..

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And sho….

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool..

Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and….