Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.