Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.