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.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

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

We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

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.