“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”

“Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from i...”

“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”

“One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.”

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”

“Stephen kissed me in the spring,Robin in the fall,But Colin only looked at meAnd never kissed at all.Stephens kiss was lost in jest,Robins lost in play,But the kiss in Colins eyesHaunts me night an...”