Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.

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

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

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

It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.