The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenseless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.