She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. Even with no motive to be false, it is very hard to say the exact truth.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!