I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.