... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.