The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.