In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might.