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?

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

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

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.