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.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.