There's a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men,…

That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!

We weep when we are born, not when we die!

The ability to secure your own way and yet impress others with the idea that they are having their own way is rare among men; in women it is as common as eyebrows.

In her eyes a thought Grew sweet and sweeter, deepening like the dawn— A mystical forewarning!

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.