Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.