Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

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

The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.