Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

The greatest mistake any man ever made is to suppose that the good things of the world are not worth the winning.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is entrusted to you, that the world looks on and approves, that some good is always being done to others -- above all things some good to your country; -- that is happiness.