Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!

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

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.