A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

Time, time will heal the wound.

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.