Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!

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

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

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.