trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.