Flattery.
Flattery is insincere praise, given from interested motives, not the sincere utterance to a friend of what we deem good and lovely in him.
HOUSE AND HOME PAPERS.
Household fairies.
In fact, nobody wanted to stay in our parlor now. It was a cold, correct, accomplished fact; the household fairies had left it,—and when the fairies leave a room, nobody ever feels at home in it. No pictures, curtains, no wealth of mirrors, no elegance of lounges, can in the least make up for their absence. They are a capricious little set; there are rooms where they will not stay, and rooms where they will, but no one can ever have a good time without them.
SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS.
Cathedrals.
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.