Success is a great healer.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.