I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.
There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
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.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.