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

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.