It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

The prayers of all good people are good.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.