A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web.