We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.