Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

I shall do everything it becomes me to do.

I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.