Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.