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

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.