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

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.