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

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?