Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

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

The bow always strung ... will not do.

She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.