The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

This above all: be true, be true, be true.

Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one

But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.