Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

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