... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

Love supreme defies all sophistry.

You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.