There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.