Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

There is nothing so costly as bargains.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.