You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.