Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

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.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.