In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.

A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.