A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.