We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.