“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
Love“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
Home“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.”
Love“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.”
Future“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
Death“And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.”
Strength“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”
God“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
Great“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.”
Truth“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.”
History“More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.”
Wisdom“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
Truth“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
Best“Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.”
Jealousy“Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.”
Happiness“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.”
Jealousy“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
Marriage“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
Great“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.”
Great“When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.”
Great“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.”
Experience“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
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