When a child is born the mother also is born again.
Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Every shot that kills ricochets.
Man is born in a day, and he dies in a day, and the thing is easily over; but to have a sick heart for three-fourths of one's lifetime is simply to have death renewed every morning; and life at that price is not worth living.