You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.