A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.