The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

All is vanity, nothing is fair.

A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.