There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

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

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.