Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.