Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

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?

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?