there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching resistance against every outward evil - by the silent preaching of your own contrary life. But if the only good you can do him is by talking at him, or about him - nay, even to him, if it be in a self-satisfied, super-virtuous style - such as I earnestly hope the present writer is not doing - you had much better leave him alone.