There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

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.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.