a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.