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.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

But certain winds will make men's temper bad.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

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

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.