I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

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.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

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.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

In every parting there is an image of death.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.