There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

Adam noticed Gyp's mental conflict, and though his anger had made him less tender than usual to his mother, it did not prevent him from caring as much as usual for his dog. We are apt to be kinder to the brutes that love us than to the women that love us. Is it because the brutes are dumb? "Go, Gyp; go, lad!" Adam said, in a tone of encouraging command; and Gyp, apparently satisfied that duty and pleasure were one, followed Lisbeth into the house-place.

Hear the other side.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

Now it's time for America to bind the wounds of division.

Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.