The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.