This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Life is a great disappointment.

America is not a country, it is a world.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.