The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?