Those who trust us educate us.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.