To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.