Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

History repeats itself.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.