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

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

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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

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

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

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

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

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

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.