Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

To-morrow is ah, whose?