Truth, like climate, is common property.

Life is moral responsibility.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.