but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.