The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.
... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
Kindness is always fashionable.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.