"O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee; " The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam And all alone we ...

And we shall be made truly wise if we be content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand the habit of mind which theologi ...

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-gar ...

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over the sooner to sleep, And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.

For science is like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

Grandeur consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mys ...

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.

One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and throu ...

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.