But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

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.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.