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

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?