Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too little valued while it was yet in her possession. What a vain show Life seemed! How unsubstantial, and flickering, and flitting! It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, ‘All are shadows!—all are passing!—all is past!

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.