"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.