Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

Memoirs are the backstairs of history.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.