To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.