It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

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

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.