Consequences are unpitying.
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
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.
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
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.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.