In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.