The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.
... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.
habit is our idea of eternity.
in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.