Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

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

Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.