The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

In women everything is heart, even the head.

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.