The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow..

An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went..

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one..

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed..

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a qualit….

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later re….

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim..

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism..

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know..

When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp..

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own..

Against the windows the storm comes dashing, Through tattered foliage the hail tears crashing, The blue lightning flashes, The rapid hail clashes... ….

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the past may have been, 'T is enoug….

Borrowed garments never keep one warm..

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends..

Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves..

Idleness induces caprice..

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth..

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves..

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing..

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with th….