Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

A good solid bit of work lasts.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.