Families are always rising and falling in America.

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

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.

Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town.

We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.