A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.

If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.