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

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.