So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.