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

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.