God has prohibited despair.

Loving souls are like paupers. They live on what is given them.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.

A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack