For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.