He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever.

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.