There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.