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

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.