It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

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.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.