Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

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.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.