There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

Men can bear all things but good days.

We generally get the evil we expect.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. ... a man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!