Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.