It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

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.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.