The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

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.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.