We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier; but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

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

Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand.

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

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