The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.