What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

It is time the clergy are told that thinking men, after a close examination of that doctrine, pronounce it to be subversive of true moral development and, therefore, positively noxious.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.