Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.