And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires.

A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.