Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.