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

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.