A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.