Men's men: be they gentle or simple they're much of a muchness.
A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams a shadow annihilates them.
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindne...
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.
What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?
There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus, and produces an excitement which is transient strength. It...
No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.
Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
It's ill guessing what the bats are flying after.
It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you’d think I should like to share...
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
I think I shall trusten till I die.
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.