For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

And I fell violently on my face.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.