That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

Not only was he ignorant, but he had not even those conditions within himself which made knowledge possible. All that there was developed of him, at present, w…

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.