I cannot believe that the anchorites up yonder are peculiarly pleasing to the Lord because they live in solitude.

Man comes to his perfect humanity only through his wife and child, and he who has them not, can never learn the most glorious heights and the darkest depths of life and feeling.

If a man may stake his whole existence and powers for anything, surely it is for his own house." "And you have honestly done so for ours!" cried Dorothea.
"For ours," repeated Petrus, giving the words the strongest accent of his deep voice.

"Two are stronger than one, and it is long since we ceased to say 'I' in discussing any question concerning the house or the children; and both have been touched by to-day's events." "The senate will not support you in constructing the road ?" "No, the bishop gave the casting-vote.

I need not tell you how we stand towards each other, and I will not blame him; for he is a just man, but in many things we can never meet half-way.