The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life.

Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

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.

Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days that are no more' with ineffable longing.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.