There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.