More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.

A human heart is a skein of such imperceptibly and subtly interwoven threads that even the owner of it is often himself at a loss how to unravel it.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

Stories first heard standing at a mother's knee, are never wholly forgotten, — a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

Husband and wife,--so much in common, how different in type! Such a contrast, and yet such harmony, strength and weakness blended together!