The worst service, I fancy, that anyone can do for truth, is to set silly people writing on its behalf.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?