It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.