Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

Happiness is like a butterfly.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.