I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

Life is the soul's nursery.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody