The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it