Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application.

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.