Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

There is one mind common to all individual men

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.