There are many victories worse than a defeat.
This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.