But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

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

It loves more readily than it hates.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book of travels, describing scenes the most unlike that sombre one

Women are safer in perilous situations and emergencies than men, and might be still more so if they trusted themselves more confidingly to the chivalry of manhood.