A good solid bit of work lasts.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.