It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.