The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

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.

It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.