The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.