It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.