Teach love, for that is what you are.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.