Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.