Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

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

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.