I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.