The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

In every parting there is an image of death.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.