Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of men.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.

My wife is - in the strictest sense - my sole companion, and I need no other. There is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart.