Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.