You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.