The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.