Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.

Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.