The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

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.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Go forward with joyful confidence.