... 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.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

Brothers are so unpleasant.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

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.