Reading brings us unknown friends

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

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

Love which economizes is never true love.