Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.