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.

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

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

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

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.