In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.

" ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.