Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.