Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

Life has a way of demanding that you live it.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.

If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.