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!

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.

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.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

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

If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.