One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.