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

You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.