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

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

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.