Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.