Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

Love which economizes is never true love.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.