How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.

One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.

He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.