I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.