It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.