It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.