Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!