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

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.