Did you ever hear of a bird in a cage, that promised to stay in it? —Page 2.
The very violets in their bed
Fold up their eyelids blue. —Page 32.
Rejoice in thy youth, rejoice in thy fresh growth, and in the young life that is within thee. —Page 70.
You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot—
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot. —Page 67.
Thank him for his lesson’s sake,
Thank God’s gentle minstrel there,
Who, when storms make others quake,
Sings of days that brighter were. —Page 214.
You must expect to be beat a few times in your life, little man, if you live such a life as a man ought to live. —Page 242.
Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be. —Page 247.
Reckon not on your chickens before they are hatched. —Page 376.
He saw the rocks of the mountain tops all crimson and purple with the sunset; and there were bright tongues of fiery cloud burning and quivering about them; and the river, brighter than all, fell, in a wavering column of pure gold, from precipice to precipice, with the double arch of a broad purple rainbow stretched across it, flushing and fading alternately in the wreaths of spray. —Page 420.