The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.
For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.