Noble hearts are neither jealous nor afraid because jealousy spells doubt and fear spells pettiness.

Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Love based upon money and vanity forms the most stubborn of passions.