My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze.

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

I do believe a young lady can't be too careful who she marries.

No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of the as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is mere vanity and vexation of spirit.

A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!