Those who trust us educate us.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.