After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

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

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?