If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

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

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

Life is made up of marble and mud.