It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are.