It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge....wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions: starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be. Just because Miss Brooke was hasty in her trust, it is not therefore clear that Mr. Casaubon was unworthy of it.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.