Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Religion is indeed a convention which a man must be bred in to endure with any patience; and yet religion, for all its poetic motley, comes closer than work-a-day opinion to the heart of things.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.