Breed is stronger than pasture.

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.