The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

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

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.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

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