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

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?