Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.