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.

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 …

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

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…