Those who trust us educate us.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.