To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Votes: 10
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Votes: 10
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Votes: 9
Love prefers twilight to daylight. Votes: 2
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. Votes: 0
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Votes: 0
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Votes: 0
[Science is] piecemeal revelation. Votes: 0
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Votes: 0
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Votes: 0
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Votes: 0
Cupid "the little greatest enemy." Votes: 0