Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will...
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
Falsehood is easy truth so difficult.
Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what...
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are...
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her...
Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to...
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no...
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a...
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would...
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.
Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another.
I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a...
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would...
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to...
The happiest women like the happiest nations have no history.
Rome - the city of visible history where the past of a whole hemisphere...
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger else it must be pressed...
Whether happiness may come or not one should try and prepare one's self to...
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be...
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns...
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought...
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of...
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are...
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine...
We hand folks over to God's mercy and show none ourselves.
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more...
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the...
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and...
We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing and the Lord will...
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving...
In spite of his practical ability some of his experience had petrified into...