... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.