... 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.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.