Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Teach love, for that is what you are.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.