I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.