If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?