You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.