O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.