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

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

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.

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.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.