One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.
Nothing is what rocks dream about
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.