The suitable is the last thing we ever want.
In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.