Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better melody in the April woods at dawn than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense, that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach him dignity morals manners and human comfort, sh…

Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.

The life of the husbandman,-a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.

To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distin…