Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.