I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think 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.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.