All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

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

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.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.