One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.