The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?