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.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.