Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.