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.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.