If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.