Miss Benson was a little piqued; and this pique showed itself afterwards in talking to her brother of the morning's proceedings in the sick-chamber.
"I admired her at the time for sending away her fifty pounds so proudly; but I think she has a cold heart: she hardly thanked me at all for my proposal of taking her home with us." "Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.

At any rate, it is unwise to expect gratitude." "What do you expect--not indifference or ingratitude ?" "It is better not to expect or calculate consequences.

The longer I live, the more fully I see that.

Let us try simply to do right actions, without thinking of the feelings they are to call out in others.

We know that no holy or self-denying effort can fall to the ground vain and useless; but the sweep of eternity is large, and God alone knows when the effect is to be produced.