In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.