Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.

The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet.

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.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.