If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine -….

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight..

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are..

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's bei….

I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her ….

It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newsp….

And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death..

To a young heart everything is fun..

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least ….

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions..

A new heart for a New Year, always!.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom..

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many thin….

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope..

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show..

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting.".

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the wor….

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on ve….

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States..

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they m….

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow..