What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

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.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

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