“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
“Those who trust us educate us.”
“Breed is stronger than pasture.”
“Blows are sarcasm's turned stupid.”
“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
“Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!”
“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
“Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.”
“What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.”
“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
“Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries.”
“Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.”
“No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.”
“The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.”
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
“I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.”
“We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.”
“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”
“It's them as take advantage that get advantage I this world.”
“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”
“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
“Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.”
“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”