We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.