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

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

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

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.