Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.