There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

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

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.