A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.