A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.