I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.

... the fallibility of human brains is in nothing more obvious than in proof reading.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.