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.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I'm not one of those that can see the cat in the dairy and wonder what she's there for.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.