I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.