In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.