If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Your little child is the only true democrat.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.