That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly