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

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.