Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.