Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.