It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments.

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