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

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

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