Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

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

Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.