I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.