I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.