I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.