The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.