Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

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

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.