How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.
What instruction the baby brings to the mother!
The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
Noble discontent is the path to heaven.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!