A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

History repeats itself.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.