No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.