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

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

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.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.