Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.