ation, send a woman to death by their venomous tongues.

* * * * *

There are a few people who would change their individuality for that of
another. We might be willing to exchange positions, to exchange all that
is apparent to the eyes of the world, but our inner consciousness, our
memories, our thoughts, feelings and desires; all that is part and
parcel of ourselves, we hold sacred.

Some minds are so small that a favour weighs heavily upon them.

* * * * *

At times one is inclined to believe that even the gods are guilty of
favouritism.

* * * * *

Some people's lives are like a flower, the more they are crushed, the
sweeter the perfume they exhale.

* * * * *

There are some people who look so rigidly virtuous and repellant that it
is a satisfaction to feel one's self just a little bit wicked.

* * * * *

We look to the higher classes and to the lower for good breeding. Middle
class people are proverbially ill-bred. What can equal the airs and
assumptions of the retired grocer's wife, who has neither the breeding
of a lady, nor the unaffected manner of the working-woman.

* * * * *

What a pity there is such an incessant babbling of human tongues, when
the daisies by the wayside, the trees of the forest, the birds in their
nests, could tell us such wondrous things if our ears were attuned to
hear, but the senses are deadened by the discordant din of dismal
sounds.

Love is the one power which transfigures the common things of life.

* * * * *

One-half of our lives is spent in making blunders, the other half in
trying to rectify them.

* * * * *

How useless to tell many people to think, for they have nothing to
think. A man reasons, a woman divines.

* * * * *

There are so many inconsistencies in life that at times one is appalled.
Take marriage, for instance:--A young woman marries a man who is
tottering on the brink of the grave; old, blaze, a worn-out roue; but
with money enough to gild and gloss the antiquated ruin. She goes before
a clergyman and promises to love, honour and obey. Yes; she loves the
luxury with which she will be surrounded, the glitter of diamonds, the
equipages, the great house, all the parap