Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal.

Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.