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

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.