My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

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

All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.