"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies."

"Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,But never will be sung to us again,Is they remembrance. Now the hour of restHath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."

"Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

"Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted."

"The world loves a spice of wickedness."

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

"Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems,And all the rest are dead."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."

"God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again."

"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are."

"Think of your woods and orchards without birds!Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beamsAs in an idiot's brain remembered wordsHang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!"

"Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it."

"Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall."

"Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!"

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."

"Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought."

"The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away."

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."

"To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others."

"One if by land, two if by sea."

"Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending."

"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."

"A thought often makes us hotter than a fire."

"I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!"

"Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour."

"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."

"O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,Taught me how mortals are immortalized;How grateful am I for that patient careAll my life long my language shall declare."

"Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best."

"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

"The present is the blocks with which we build."

"No one is so accursed by fate No one so utterly desolate But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own."

"Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep."

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day, Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet, The words repeat Of peace on earth good-will to men!"

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"Why don't you speak for yourself John?"

"Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth."

"Resolve, and thou art free."

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

"Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think."

"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining."

"Into each life some rain must fall."

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

"A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."

"People demand freedom only when they have no power."