Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

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.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

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.