If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order

Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.