What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Time, like money, is measured by our needs.

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.