My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.

I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

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