Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude; and, as the humble birds carol blithely round our dwellings, so the meeker lays of the muse linger tunefully about the heart.

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.