It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.