People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

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.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.