Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

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

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.