Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

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

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

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

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.