which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that
enormous chain which all the living, in common, drag behind
them?--_Toilers of the Sea._

On the day when a woman who passes before you emits light as she
walks you are lost, for you love. You have from that moment but one
thing to do: think of her so intently that she will be compelled to
think of you.--_Les Misérables._

The soul only needs to see a smile in a white crêpe bonnet in order
to enter the palace of dreams.--_Les Misérables._

She had upon her lips almost the light of a smile, with the fulness
of tears in her eyes.... The reflection of an angel was in her
look.--_Toilers of the Sea._




ROBERT BROWNING.


There is a vision in the heart of each
Of justice, mercy, wisdom, tenderness
To wrong and pain, and knowledge of its cure:
And these embodied in a woman's form
That best transmits them, pure as first received,
From God above her, to mankind below.

_Colombe's Birthday._