Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.