Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.