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.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Breed is stronger than pasture.