Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.