When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.