"Your reproof would seem to imply that I have done you or some one else a wrong." "If only you had!" exclaimed he.

"No, you have not sinned against us in any way.--'I am as I am' is what you think of yourself; and what do you care for others ?" "That must depend on whom you mean by 'others!'" "Nothing less than all and each of those with whom you live--here, in this house, in this town, in this world.

To you they are mere air--or less; for the air is a tangible thing that can fill a ship's sails and drive it against the stream, whose varying nature can bring comfort or suffering to your body." "My world is within!" said Paula, laying her hand on her heart.
"Very true.

And all creation may find room there; for what cannot the human heart, as it is called, contain! The more we require it to take and keep, the more ready it is to hold it.

It is unsafe to let the lock rust; for, if once it has grown stiff, when we want to open it no pulling and wrenching will avail.