"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Men are only as great as they are kind"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"