The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.