A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
To all to each a fair goodnight And pleasing dreams and slumbers light.
Welcome as the flowers in May.
Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity,'' she said, with a look resembling one of those heroines of the age of chivalry, whose encouragement was wont to give champions doubl...
And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the...
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
PatriotismBreathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, my native land!' Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd As home his footsteps he hath turn'dFrom...
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom, he said to himself, but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.