... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

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

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.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.