We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

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

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

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.