Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.