Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.
In every parting there is an image of death.
... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.