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.

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

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

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.

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

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