When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.