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

We cannot reform our forefathers.

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.