Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.