Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.