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?

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

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

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.