old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.