Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

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

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!