In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.