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're gone.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.