There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . .

Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.