It Is With Flowers As With Moral

Some People Carry Their Hearts In Their Heads; Very Many Carry Their Heads In Their Hearts. The Difficulty Is To Keep Them Apart, Yet Both Actively Working Together.

It Is With Flowers As With Moral Qualities; The Bright Are Sometimes Poisonous; But, I Believe, Never The Sweet.

Better Far Off To Leave Half The Ruins And Nine-tenths Of The Churches Unseen And To See Well The Rest; To See Them Not Once, But Again And Often Again; To Watch Them, To Learn Them, To Live With Them, To Love Them, Till They Have Become A Part Of Life And Life's Recollections.

A Statesman, We Are Told, Should Follow Public Opinion. Doubtless, As A Coachman Follows His Horses; Having Firm Hold On The Reins And Guiding Them.

Since The Generality Of Persons Act From Impulse, Much More Than From Principle, Men Are Neither So Good Nor So Bad As We Are Apt To Think Them.