When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

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

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.