Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.