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.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to.

Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.