A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

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

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

The breath of peace was fanning her glorious brow, her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! She slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God.