Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.