When a new book is published, read an old one..

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head..

Feeling hearts--touch them but lightly--pour A thousand melodies unheard before..

That very law which moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source,- That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course..

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play..

To know her was to love her..

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip..

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail..

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand mel….

The hour arrives, the moment wish'd and fear'd, The child is born by many a pang endear'd And now the mother's ear has caught his cry; O grant the ch….

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts..

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men..

Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire..

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else..

Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so insensible..

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it..

Gentle to others, to himself severe..

By many a temple half as old as Time..

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made..

Vast and deep the mountain shadows grew..

Then never less alone than when alone..