I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.