A good solid bit of work lasts.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.