Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Very few can be trusted with an education.

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

The hand betrays the heart.

Family traits, like murder, will out. Nature has but so many molds.

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy