I worked with patience which means almost power.

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

Eve is a twofold mystery.

It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.