Happiness is like a butterfly.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known by the name and title of Doctor Grimshawe, whose household consisted of a remarkably pretty and vivacious boy, and a perfect rosebud of a girl, two or three years younger than he, and an old maid of all work, of strangely mixed breed, crusty in temper and wonderfully sluttish in attire.