We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

An empire is an immense egotism.

All writing comes by the grace of God.

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.