I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.