What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.