Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

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.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.