Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.