When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

History repeats itself.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

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.