Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.