Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.