One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.