Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.