Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.