Don't judge a book by its cover

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

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

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.