They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

Assuredly of all earthly conditions uncertainty is the most unblest.

The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.