I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.