We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

[It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?