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

There is more done with pens than with swords.

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

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.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

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

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.