The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

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.

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

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

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

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.