That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.