But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

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

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.