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

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

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.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

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.

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