We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

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

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.