It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.

Sunlight is painting.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

But, all this while, I was giving myself very unnecessary alarm. Providence had mediated better things for me than I could possibly imagine for myself.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.