Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

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.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right.