The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.

The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.