Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

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

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.