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.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.