Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.