The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another