It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.