I protest against any absolute conclusion.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.