Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.