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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.