Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.