A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
No one does anything from a single motive.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.