When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!