Let the black flower blossom as it may!

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.