But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow..

what is unreasonable is irrefutable..

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it..

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much..

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware tha….

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and ….

All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves..

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it..

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work w….

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves..

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life..

... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?.

The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful..

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous..

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vague….

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes..

Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech..

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them..

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul..

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come..