Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

I heard a neigh. Oh, such a brisk and melodious neigh it was. My very heart leapt with the sound.

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.