Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.