Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.