Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who wish earnestly that he should live, will recover (all other things being equal), when another patient tended by hirelings will die. Doctors decline to see unconscious magnestism in this phenomenon; for them it is the result of intelligent nursing, of exact obedience to their orders; but many a mother knows the virtue of such ardent projections of strong, unceasing prayer.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker