Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Go forward with joyful confidence.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.