"The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back."

"Dear robin," said this sad young flower, "Perhaps you'd not mind trying To find a nice white frill for me, Some day w…"

"The warm sun kissed the earth To consecrate thy birth, And from his close embrace Thy radiant face Sprang into sight,…"

"A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the l…"

"Your patience may have long to wait, Whether in little things or great, But all good luck, you soon will learn, Must …"

"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether l…"

"It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays w…"

"Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading."

"The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man."

""Step in some afternoon," he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age…"