Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Love supreme defies all sophistry.