Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.