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

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.