Above all else, never think you're not good enough.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.