Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it