Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.