Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow..

The gift without the giver is rare..

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius..

Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, I….

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish an….

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes..

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty..

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak..

Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries,….

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than ….

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market..

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle..

Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving..

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard..

Light is the symbol of truth..

The material of thought re-acts upon the thought itself..

All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and….

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl..

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit..

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise..

That best academy, a mother's knee..