It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

Teach love, for that is what you are.