“Good, better, bestNever let it rest,Till ur good is betterAnd better is best.”

“Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail...”

“Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.”

“If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”

“If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.”

“A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.”

“Theirs was that substantial affection which arises (if any arises at all) when the two who are thrown together begin first by knowing the rougher sides of each other’s character, and not the best till further on, the romance growing up in the interstices of a mass of hard prosaic reality.”