And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her? And did not she come awake exactly at the right moment when the right prince kissed her? For my part, I cannot help wishing a good many girls would sleep till just the same fate overtook them. It would be happier for them, and more agreeable to their friends.

To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize, and call them providences. It is well that they can; but it would be gloriously better if they could believe that the whole matter is one grand providence.

A true friend is forever a friend.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

Religion is life essential.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.