How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

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

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

Rome is an astonishment!

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.