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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.