There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.