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.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

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

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Your little child is the only true democrat.