The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet possession for a bad man to have. Who knows the metes and bounds of it? Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity?

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.