Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.