Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.