The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

A screen... the scenery and the figures of life were perfectly represented, but with that bewitching, yet indescribably difference, which always makes a picture, an image, or a shadow, so much more attractive than the original.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!