For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.