Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.