People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

We cannot leave the expression of our lives to those better qualified than we are, however dear they may be.

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.

There are half hours that dilate to the importance of centuries.

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

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

People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.