We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.