Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.